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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Stormy Weather

At three am I was awoken by the sound of high winds. The crazy dance of the trees in the moonlight created flame like patterns on the wood ceiling. As I dreamily watched them my mind wandered to the condition of the trees. There is a towering cedar in front of the house. It shuts out sun from the room we use most and, much to my annoyance, the garden. For it to fall would not be altogether a bad thing. As long as I wasn't underneath it. With the noise too loud for sleep I entertained myself with calculating the pitch of the roof, my position within the house and the most likely direction in which the tree would fall. All for naught, that thing is solidly rooted. The tree feller has been for a visit. Only one thing stand in the way of the plan....my other "feller". I predict more stormy weather.

15 comments:

I have been there ! It is very disturbing when the wind is so high - my old house creaks under the strain! We did have a huge conifer crash into our garden from next door, it did no harm to any buildings but did crash through our beech hedge, flattening parts of it. Waiting to be logged tomorrow .

You made me laugh with your "feller" pun! I know how it is living with a feller who can be so solidly rooted in his opinions about changing anything the garden! I'm glad that you had no damage from the storm, though!

The winter has been cruel to my trees and we lost the most during the ice storm. The worst though was that half my Willow, the centerpiece of my backyard, was badly damaged and may not be able to be saved. It breaks my heart. However, I am thankful that nothing fell on my house like some of my neighbors have.

In 1985 15 million trees were downed in south east England in what is known as the great storm. I may joke about wanting to lose one particular tree but to lose trees we love is another thing altogether.

I am the opposite: I love wild weather and sleep right through it. Staying awake won't change anything so I go to sleep. Of course, I may be cranky and hard to live with the next day when I see the damage, but that's a different story. :o) Is it time for the tree to come down?

We too, here in Blighty, have had bizarre weather this winter. The wind last weekend was the scariest I remember for a long time. How our paper-thin fence managed to remain standing I'll never know. Thankfully no big trees about but I lay there dreading roof tiles, fence panels, greenhouse all gone by morning but they were still there, thank goodness, still in tact.

Is there an argument that its roots may undermine the house foundations?? Get some facts on your side, and you may get the tree down - I'd hate the light to be blocked, no matter how much I love trees, I love light more :)Thank you for your lovely comments btw - your colour scheme sounds perfect - I love robin-egg walls, so calming... Take pics when you get it done :)

A nice short-story :-). Instead of thinking how the cedar is blocking sunlight, think how old it is, how much wisdom it has and how much it saw and could have shared with you if only it knew how to speak our language or if we knew how to speak tree-language and all problems will be solved :-).